Fruit Fly

... genetics and in the midst of conducting a Drosophila melangaster fruit fly cross breeding experiment. I have two mutations: ruffled edge wing in one stock, and reduced ...

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... ask, what evidence that the segmented nature of the body plan of the fruit fly has changed throughout it's existence, regardless of how rapid its generation time may ...

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... chance of happening - you can call this unlikely. However, if a million fruit flies are born, then it will probably happen around once. If you then ... mutation happening about once per generation ‒ 40 years for a fruit fly), it would happen almost immediately. The first mutation would almost ...

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... it depends on how strong the selection is. I assume most of the fruit fly population reproduces in the wild, so the strongest selection factors are probably keeping ...

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Could we unintetnionally select for faster and more evasive fruit flies in the populations in our homes because we are always swatting at ... on them, and they don't even flinch. I spent more time whiping up the fly guts. By the way, if there is a way to keep them out without killing them, ...

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